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What's the Better Desktop to run in Linux?

My current favorite is KDE 2.2. I liked 1.x as well, BTW.

I've recently (two days ago) tried BlackBox, but found it impossible to work with. Further a selection of the other WM's, but none of them were better than KDE IMHO.

Hmm.. that reminds me that I haven't tried Gnome for a while. What's it like now? When I tried it the last time (more than a year ago) it really sucked compared to KDE 1.x.
 
I'm running KDE now. I have very little experience with both, so I won't vote. However, I'd be interested in the results of this poll. 🙂
 
The best WM/desktop environment is whichever one you prefer :0) Currently I'm partial to the command line ;0) However X is really useful when opening multiple terminals <G>
 
Blackbox... It is simple, easy to configure (When you read the FAQ's)... But not big on resources... About 3 seconds on my PIII 800 Thinkpad from startx <Enter> to full usability...

Great little WM...
 


<< Blackbox... It is simple, easy to configure (When you read the FAQ's)... But not big on resources... About 3 seconds on my PIII 800 Thinkpad from startx <Enter> to full usability...

Great little WM... >>

Hmm.. I read the whole documentation on BB, but I still don't know how to switch the mouse from right- to left-handed, nor whether BB has its own filemanager, nor how to launch apps from within BB ("run"). In short, I browsed a little around in BB and decided that it was still far from being complete.
 
Definentaly blackbox... very fast, good looking, and sleek.

BB doesn't have its own file manager, but you can run konqueror from within blackbox wich is a pretty good file manager, if you like GUI file managers (console for me).
 


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<< Blackbox... It is simple, easy to configure (When you read the FAQ's)... But not big on resources... About 3 seconds on my PIII 800 Thinkpad from startx <Enter> to full usability...

Great little WM... >>

Hmm.. I read the whole documentation on BB, but I still don't know how to switch the mouse from right- to left-handed, nor whether BB has its own filemanager, nor how to launch apps from within BB ("run"). In short, I browsed a little around in BB and decided that it was still far from being complete. >>



It is basically complete. I use black box. If you need a "file manager" use an xterm. Blackbox, to me, is just a way to run multiple xterms on one screen without theextras you would get with KDE/Gnome/many of the others. It is small, and not as "feature rich" as the others, and this is what I personally like about it. It was written (by a FreeBSD user I believe) to be small, fast, and stable. And it fufills all three goals. You want bloa- I mean features, use KDE/Gnome 😉
 
Yep, it was written by a freeBSD user. He abandoned the project to go and work for the QT team though 🙁

So that's why blackbox has been the same version for months and months... not that it needs updating, but a few tweaks might be nice.
 


<< Yep, it was written by a freeBSD user. He abandoned the project to go and work for the QT team though 🙁

So that's why blackbox has been the same version for months and months... not that it needs updating, but a few tweaks might be nice. >>



Hrmm.. Its been a while, but I read his last post differently. To me it sounded like he was going to still work on it, but couldnt put the time in that he used to... Oh well, I have no complaints right now 🙂
 


<< Hmm.. I read the whole documentation on BB, but I still don't know how to switch the mouse from right- to left-handed, nor whether BB has its own filemanager, nor how to launch apps from within BB ("run"). In short, I browsed a little around in BB and decided that it was still far from being complete >>



I feel your pain with the left handed mouse bit. I'm sure you can change some config file, but I never got around to messing with it enough to do so.
 


<< if you want lean and mean so much, why not just use twm???
its about as lean as you're gonna get >>



Because I know enough about blackbox to make it usable now. Like OpenBSD, it makes sense to me, and I see no reason to use anything else 🙂

I am sure you feel the same with whichever DE/WM you use 🙂
 


<< What do you mean KDE bloat? It only takes up about 300 megs of ram on my system.. not that bad 😀 >>



Is that all? I might as well start downloading it. Maybe by tomorrow it will have started compiling 😛
 
I didnt say he officially abandonded it... BB never gets updated, let alone his web site. he never shows up in the IRC channel anymore, it's just accepted that he probably wont work on it anymore.
 


<< I didnt say he officially abandonded it... BB never gets updated, let alone his web site. he never shows up in the IRC channel anymore, it's just accepted that he probably wont work on it anymore. >>



Its a shame. Hopefully someone will take over development.
 
CDE!
Hahahahahaha ROFLMAO!!!

I like KDE better than Gnome I think...
I haven't used either extensively, my primary Linux box is too gutless to run XFree so I use it command line only mode.
 
Well,
There a difference between window managers and desktops...
I don't like to use desktops that much, I'm still a keyboard love myself, but anyway
I like XFCE! as a desktop! I use it on my desktop computer at
home!! At the lab we use Kde1.x and it works fine....

On my lappy, i tried a few and I think I'll stick to blackbox...is clean and fast!
And my lappy is just used to type anyway so I don't need that many things...
its runnning Slack8 with BB, installed from the zipslack distro to save time....

 
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